Is there any way to display the embedded date/time codes in the AVI files that I have imported from my Digital-8 video camera? I can view them when playing the tape in either my video camera, or my Sony 'Video Walkman' tape deck, but have not been able to find a way to do it in either After Effects or Premier.

I know that the codes are being captured in the AVI file, because if I record the file back out to another Digital-8 tape and then play the tape back on its tape deck, it shows the date/time codes properly.

I am trying to create an index of all of my video tapes. The index includes the date that each clip was taken and its length. I can do this by loading the tapes into my player one-by-one and fast-forwarding to the different scenes, but that seems like a lot more trouble than it needs to be, especially when my ultimate goal is to get rid of all of my old Digital-8 equipment and tapes.

Mmh, have you tried other applications to convert and archive your stuff? I know for a fact that e.g. Canopus ProCoder respects and converts embedded timecodes for a number of formats. Or what about VirtualDub? it's free after all, so a test spin couldn't hurt. Perhaps there's even some plugin for it that generates a text file from the TCs... There's definitely one that does edit detection, if I remeber correctly.